I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.